Best Books for a 3 Year Old

Updated on August 15, 2011
J.R. asks from Washington, DC
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Dear Mommas,
What books do you recommend for a 3 year old's library?

Many thanks.

Jilly

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L.M.

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My daughter's favorite book was "Little Bear".
Eric Carle is a great author - "The Hungry Caterpillar", "Brown Bear, Brown Bear"
""Are You My Mother? by PD Eastman
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"

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J.A.

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Cars and trucks and things that go
Curios George
The rainbow fish
I spy books
all books by Eric Carle
fairy tales
Hand, hand, fingers thumb
Love you forever
guess how much I love you

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L.S.

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My girls love the Berenstein Bears, Mercer Meyer's Little Critter books, Franklin, nursery rhymes.

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S.H.

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Little Bear, by Maurice Sendak.

My son, loves Little Bear.

Or books by Eric Carle

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B.B.

answers from Missoula on

My 3 year-old loves the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. He has all 4 of them and they are frequent story-time choices. We also love almost anything by Mo Willems and Laura Numeroff.

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R.R.

answers from Los Angeles on

Since there are SO many good ones i started asking the children's librarian what they recommend. If you give them a topic, too, they can zero in on exactly the best ones. This way you can take a look at them before you buy them, I still do this for my grandchildren 12 and 9, and now for my little guy, who's 2 : )

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M.L.

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Cowboy and Octopus
Oscar and the Mooncats
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum
The Tear Thief
Baby Bat's Lullabye
The Empty Pot
Where the Wild Things Are
Buttermilk
The Giving Tree
Mostly Monsterly
All the World
The Little Moon Princess
Snook Alone
When Owen's Mom Breathed Fire
Up
The Legend of the Golden Snail

some of our favorites

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B.B.

answers from New York on

Our son really likes the Arthur books. Specifically Arthur's Promise - I think he likes it so much because there is mention of sugar cookies, brownies and punch!!

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J.C.

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Too many to list, but one of my son's favorites at that age was Dinosaurumpus. Oh, and I Love You Stinky Face.

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N.B.

answers from Minneapolis on

I recently bought this great book for my home childcare.

"Push here" by Herve Tullet. Watch this youtube of the book and imagine reading it with the child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj81KC-Gm64

The book tells you to press the yellow dot, tip the book, shake it, etc. Its alot of fun!

Its so much fun to read with a child!!!

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M.L.

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Llama Llama books - they are fun to read for the parents and my kids love them

Dr. Seuss books:
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
The Cat in the Hat
Fox in Socks
Green Eggs & Ham
and several others

Brown Bear Brown Bear and the collection

Little Pea, Little Hoot, & Little Oink (3 book boxed set)
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Books-Boxed-Featuring-Hoot/d...

Curious George

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